Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 14:04:25 -0500
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Enlightenment (chapter 2) Jan van Eyck Theory Symposium Maastricht, Netherlands | May 2000


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---------> What is Enlightenment? <--------------- 
send your answers to:  enlightenment2-AT-hotmail.com 
or go to the site: http://www.janvaneyck.nl/enlightenment and post on 
message board.  Answers will be posted on the site in the near future as they come in. --------------------------> 

Enlightenment (chapter 2) 
Jan van Eyck Akademie Theory Symposium 
May 26.27.28 2000 
Maastricht, Netherlands 
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>From Sue Golding, Head of Theory, Jan van Eyck Akademie: 

Enlightenment (chapter 2) is an interactive, international symposium to take place May 26-28, in conjunction with the open 
days, at the Jan van Eyck Akademie. 

This event puts into critical focus the earlier responses by Kant 
and others, on the question, "What is Enlightenment?". Now 
re-played through the message board (s) and chat room (s) on the 
Internet (http://www.janvaneyck.nl/enlightenment) and 'in situ' at the 
Jan van Eyck. 

What is Enlightenment (chapter 2) runs within and through the broad outlines of a new philosophic, political and technological aesthetics, and sets the discussion in terms of three
interweaving axes: 

- contamination; -release; -situation. 

Invited international scholars, philosophers, artists, musicians, designers, and technicians include: 

Mieke Bal (Netherlands), Johanna Balusikova (Slovakia), Jon Bird (England), Pascal Brannan (England), Nadezda Cacinovic (Croatia), Shu Lea Cheang (United States), Manuel De Landa (United States), Robert Estermann (Switzerland), Judith Fisher (Austria), Ro
bert Garnett (England), Pascale Gatzen (Netherlands), Sue Golding (johnny de philo; England), Paul Hallam(England), William Haver(United States), Christian Hübler (Knowbotic Research; Switzerland), Mirela Ivanciu (Romania), JODI (Joan Heemskerk, Dirk Paes
mans, Netherlands/Spain), Kenny
(who will die at the end of this episode), Ervin Kesler (Romania), Manfred Kobroth (Germany), Franziska Lésak, Geert Lovink 
(Netherlands/ Australie), Sarat Maharaj (England), Marjan Melkert (Netherlands), Eva Meyer (Germany), Holly Mountain (England), Rubén de Nuez (Cuba), Ronald Palmer (United States),
Despina Papadopoulos (Emerging Technologies; United States), Mark Pauline (Survival Research Laboratories;United States), Ana Peraica (Kroatia), Salvatore Puglia (Italy/France),
Constanze Ruhm (Austria), Hans Scheirl (Austria/England), Nasrin Tabatabai (Netherlands), very yellow plane, VNX MATRIX (Julianne Pierce, Josephine Starrs, Francesca da Rimini;
Australia), Stevan Vukovic (Serbia). 
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On the context---------------> 
(following from:  Foucault Reader, Editor Paul Rabinow, What is Enlightenment) 

"Today when a periodical asks it's readers a question, it does so in order to collect opinions on some subject about which everyone has an opinion already; there is not much likelihood of learning anything new. In the eighteenth century, editors preferred
 to question the public on problems that did not yet have solutions. In any event, in line with this custom, in November 1784, a German periodical, Berlinische Monatschrift, published a response to the question: Was ist Aufklärung? And the respondent was 
Kant. ( a copy of Kant's answer can be found
here: http://www.eserver.org/philosophy/kant/what-is-enlightenment.txt) A minor text perhaps. But it seems to me that it marks the discreet entrance into the history of thought of a
question that modern philosophy has not been capable of answering, but that it has never managed to get rid of, either...How are we constituted as subjects of our own knowledge? How
are we constituted as subjects who exercise or submit to power relations? How are we constituted as moral subjects of our own actions?" 
-Michel Foucault 
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VLADIMIR: Well? What should we do?
ESTRAGON: Don't let's do anything. It's safer" 
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett 
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